The Earth is picking up speed, and it’s forcing scientists and timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move. According to ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

It takes Earth 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds, to make one full rotation around its axis, but Earth's rotation isn't perfectly constant. It speeds up and slows down due to a complex mix of factors, and ...

Over the past two centuries, the construction of thousands of dams has done more than just tame rivers – it has shifted the ...

While its rotation had been steadily declining, the Earth reversed the trend in 2020, beating 60-year-old records for the shortest days 28 times. Another culprit could be powerful earthquakes knocking ...

I went to bed and woke in 2025.' ...

When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...

July 2025 will be one of the shortest days on record as the Earth will complete its full rotation in slightly less time than ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...

Earth's rotation on its axis determines our daily cycle of sunrise and sunset. Each rotation takes 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds.

"If the effect is real and scaling behaves the way our equations say, then the possibility becomes real," Chyba told Newsweek ...

Instead Earth’s so-called “True North Pole” is whichever place that is northernmost on the planet, a fact determined by where the globe’s axis of rotation meets its surface.